How do you knock down icicles on your house? A shovel? A stick? Your hands? Those are all common and effective methods. One old man in Illinois went with his gun instead.

The unnamed 80-year-old from St. Charles Township was shooting down icicles on his house Friday morning when a neighbor understandably called the police after hearing the shots. Police did not charge the man with a crime or arrest him, but presumably asked him to find a better way to take down his icicles. (Just pay some neighborhood kids to throw rocks at them, or something.)